I thought it might interest you to know that
our website
experienced an unseasonably large surge in business over this past weekend. For the most part, I believe that
this sudden expansion in interest resulted from the amazing number of missing titles and issue numbers that
we have been adding into
our site
over the past 180 days. Will and Pam have been accomplishing miracles during those six months, oftentimes grading
well over 1,000comics and magazines
per day.

Some of the Doctor Strange comics just added

As a case in point, I quickly scanned our listings of the classic
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN
magazine a few months back, and was dismayed to see that we were totally out-of-stock on almost every issue between
#1-#50. Looking at that same title on a whim this morning, we were only missing four issues out of the first 50, with
availability in two (or more) grades being the norm.

While seeing tangible evidence of our excellent progress in rebuilding our stock of early issues of
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN
is heartening, it makes me feel even better to know that this is only the initial stage of our restocking program. Simply
put, ever since the beginning of May, when we finally finished the Herculean task of combining our 56th Ave. operations into
Jason St.,
our total focus has been on sorting and grading an ever-increasing number of
comics and magazines
to offer to those of you who cannot regularly visit our
Mega-Store.
That effort is now bearing wonderful fruit, as our sales are rising steadily even during a period which is typically our
slowest time of year.

All of this positive energy makes it far easier for me to shoulder the responsibility for shipping home even more comics
for Will and Pam to grade for you. To explain, I will need to be at the Denver airport at 5 AM tomorrow morning to catch a
crack-of-dawn flight for San Francisco, where I will be loading approximately 200,000 smaller press titles into a semi-trailer
for shipment to Denver. Before that truck heads to
Jason St.,
however, it will first stop in Las Vegas, where I will be waiting on Wednesday morning to load an additional 125,000 comics
(including 10,000+Silver Age
and
Bronze Age
issues!) for Will and Pam. I then get to fly home to Denver late on Wednesday evening, to spearhead the process of sorting our
newest acquisitions on Friday. Whew!

Some of the Amazing Adventure comics just added

One point I do want to stress about all of my recent purchasing of collections is that we frequently only receive a single
copy of any given issue. On Sunday morning, for example, we uploaded some excellent runs of
AMAZING ADVENTURES (1970),
DOCTOR STRANGE (1974),
MAN-THING (1974),
MARVEL PREMIERE (1972),
SHIELD (1968), and
FLASH (1959),
all of which contained only single copies. These beloved issues (as well as the extremely rare book sets that we listed on Friday)
were all from the collection of the gentleman who's estate I purchased in Precott, AZ last week.

Some of the Man-Thing comics just added

All of the above having been said, I also want you to know that there have been instances where we have finally been able to add
some duplicates for you into
website inventory.
Duplication is very important for you, as the foremost criteria of our pricing of comics on
our website
is a daily analysis of the number of copies that we have on hand of any given title and issue. The more copies that we have in stock,
the greater the discount that our computerized pricing algorithm applies to that issue.

That is one reason why, if you look at
our website
today, you will see substantially lower prices on some issues as compared with a couple of months ago. That trend of decreasing prices
pleases me very much, as it means that we are truly making collecting easier and more affordable for you. Assuming, of course, that we
can keep locating and adding even more desirable back issues into our inventory.

Some of the Flash comics just added

I now need to start working on logistics for tomorrow's trip, but before I go I want to pass on a couple more quick tips. First, our
60% off NANETTE2 codeword sale is still in effect for you through this Saturday 10/22, at which time it will be replaced by our annual
HALLOWEEN codeword. I have not yet decided on the discount for the HALLOWEEN codeword. NANETTE2 applies a 60% discount to all ten million of our
back issue comics and magazines,
excluding only new issues, a few varaints, and our CGC's.

Second, there are several more books and book sets from my Prescott, AZ purchase included with this newsletter. All are single copies,
so order quickly if you wish to add some of these great books to your personal library. All are already discounted at 20% off from list price,
so the NANETTE2 codeword does not apply to books.

Chuck with members of the Imperial Court of the Rocky Mountain Empire after presentation of our $4,000 donation check to Feeding Denver's Hungry.

P.S. After finally receiving payment for a couple credit memos that were ordered as a part of the
FEEDING DENVER'S HUNGRY
benefit, we drew the winner on October 3rd His name is Tim, and he lives in Penfield, New York. Congratulations!

$25.00 Gift Certificate.

If you who did not win the $1,000 gift certificate in this first drawing, I promise you that you will get another chance later this month.
I am beginning a promotion today where you can again donate $25, and receive a
$25 gift certificate
in return. Just use the link in this newsletter, or mention that you would like to purchase a gift certificate in the "notes" portion of our
order form. We can either mail you your gift certificate, or e-mail you a registration number that you can then use with your next order.

Chuck leaving a meal for a homeless teen sleeping outside the Urban Peak offices.
Sadly, kids learn that they have to sleep during the daytime because they have to stay
on the move at night out of fear of attack.

In case you are wondering, our beneficiaries this time are two awesome local groups here in Denver that help teens in need:
RAINBOW ALLEY
and
URBAN PEAK.
Both of these groups help homeless teens to find shelter and jobs, and/or to get them back into school. Cold weather is coming very soon,
so I will also be working to get warm clothes for these desperate kids either through purchasing, or via a donation box that we're setting up at
Jason St.

Our volunteers oftentimes bring their kids along to help distribute meals. They are very welcome!

I'll close by quickly mentioning that your odds of winning one of our drawings are quite good, as we had only 151 entries in this last drawing.
That having been said, we still netted an awesome total of $3,775 for
FEEDING DENVER'S HUNGRY.
Mile High Comics
then added $225 more, to round up our donation to an even $4,000! That will make a huge difference to this all-volunteer organization, as we can
leverage that money on a 20-1 basis at the
Food Bank of the Rockies,
resulting in our being able to distribute about $80,000 in food to Denver's homeless this winter. Thank you for helping us to make this awesome
contribution to
FEEDING DENVER'S HUNGRY